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Disparities in the pace of biological aging among midlife adults of the same chronological age have implications for future frailty risk and policy
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DunedinPACE was developed by modeling within-individual multi-system physiological change across four timepoints in same-age individuals in the Dunedin Study 1972-1973 birth cohort, when participants were aged 26, 32, 38 and 45 yr.
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